Josh Shapiro

The unprecedented presidential race just past got the lion's share of the attention from voters and the media. But this election also left us in a Pennsylvania frame of mine.

That's not a good thing.

It was emblematic of our state's political culture that candidates for two of the three statewide row offices on the ballot had to make an issue of how they would free those offices from the taint of corruption.

In the race for attorney general, the candidates had to wrestle with the imprisonment of disgraced former Attorney General Kathleen Kane for...

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